{"id":326,"date":"2008-04-10T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/MamaOKnits\/2008\/04\/10\/the-new-baby\/"},"modified":"2008-04-10T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T17:58:00","slug":"the-new-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/the-new-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"The new baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mobile-photo\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_eKFMOhvaI5o\/R_5VjkLfA3I\/AAAAAAAAAg8\/ZHRbKtmBJwA\/s1600-h\/0410081059-782742.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_eKFMOhvaI5o\/R_5VjkLfA3I\/AAAAAAAAAg8\/ZHRbKtmBJwA\/s320\/0410081059-782742.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187677890273018738\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-photo\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-photo\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_eKFMOhvaI5o\/R_5VD0LfA1I\/AAAAAAAAAgs\/wF0xpnxzSC0\/s1600-h\/0410081056-754777.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_eKFMOhvaI5o\/R_5VD0LfA1I\/AAAAAAAAAgs\/wF0xpnxzSC0\/s320\/0410081056-754777.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187677344812172114\" \/><\/a>SILK!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-photo\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_eKFMOhvaI5o\/R_5VZULfA2I\/AAAAAAAAAg0\/YZapXVGl00w\/s1600-h\/0410081057-740887.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_eKFMOhvaI5o\/R_5VZULfA2I\/AAAAAAAAAg0\/YZapXVGl00w\/s320\/0410081057-740887.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187677714179359586\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-photo\">SILK!!!!!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-photo\">And that doesn&#8217;t even touch on the weaving!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mobile-photo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_eKFMOhvaI5o\/R_5TKULfA0I\/AAAAAAAAAgk\/swEubhcNO_4\/s320\/0405081352-769208.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187675257458066242\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2267\/2403067979_bee6e6e066.jpg?v=0\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3018\/2403894252_51fd178d18.jpg?v=0\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>So, as you may have noticed, I disappeared. Between my Grandmother&#8217;s funeral, work, and the Arizona Federation&#8217;s Fibers Through Time conference, I was swamped.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The good news? I won the award for Best Entry by a New Fiber Artist. I&#8217;m a new weaver (having picked it up in the last year) so I was able to enter something I made as a &#8220;newbie&#8221;&#8211;and I WON for the white Huck Lace table runner I made.<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_eKFMOhvaI5o\/RraY4dA0HpI\/AAAAAAAAAKc\/fgoIeheYmR8\/s320\/0805072041-708997.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Very very exciting.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And, my husband was there to see it. Very nice.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In between all of the nuttyness, I got some spinning time in with friend Lynn, got to hang with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantingjuno.typepad.com\/\">Enchanting Juno<\/a>, fixed the pool and water heater (both twice), cleaned the garage out (or at least \u00a0cleaned \u00a0what I could until we get more shelves inside and out), and am nearly done pulling all the clothes I never wear to take to<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"> Twice as Nice<\/span><\/span> (our local&#8211;wonderful&#8211;New To You chain).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So now I&#8217;m still swamped and losing my mind. Work, prepping for teaching here at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwiknitting.com\/\">Kiwi<\/a>, prepping for teaching at SeaSocks 08, finishing all the goodie bag goodies for SeaSocks, podcasting, TRYing to finish all the million social obligation knitting pieces I&#8217;ve committed to, volunteering at my son&#8217;s school (love that) and generally making a nuisance of myself at home.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But, you know, <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Poseidon<\/span><\/span>&#8216;s on TV and the boat&#8217;s about to be swamped so I&#8217;m rethinking that whole SeaSocks thing. But hell, if RIchard Dreyfuss can pull himself back from the brink, I suppose I&#8217;ll see my way through this, too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SILK! SILK!!!!! And that doesn&#8217;t even touch on the weaving! So, as you may have noticed, I disappeared. Between my Grandmother&#8217;s funeral, work, and the Arizona Federation&#8217;s Fibers Through Time conference, I was swamped. The good news? I won the award for Best Entry by a New Fiber Artist. I&#8217;m a new weaver (having picked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}